Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDEach moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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